Tuesday, May 19th, 2009 by ames
(ames)
Seven thousand works in process, and nothing is getting finished! Apparently it is genetic. This is what is going on. Sadly, I only have a few pictures, as my camera has gone to meet Elvis in the great beyond. It is dead dead dead, and until I can replace it, I got nothing by way of pictures. WOE.
After casting on and ripping out several socks, I finally found a pattern that worked beautifully with Lorna’s Laces Tuscany – a yarn I bought at the LL factory sale two years ago and never really found a pattern that clicked with it. I settled on a simple 2×2 rib, offset by one stitch every six rows. I love it! The leg’s a bit longer than I usually do, because I wanted it to be scrunchable. (Totally a word.) The finished socks are incredibly comfortable and cute, and I finished the pair in a couple of weeks worth of CTA knitting.
I’ve also been churning out the Babette squares, but again no pictures. Woe, I have to replace my crochet hook, and haven’t made it to Hancock Fabrics yet (it’s a bit of a walk). My hook has gone missing, and the end is a little chewed up (Buddy, j’accuse) and snagging on the yarn. I’m going to need to replenish the yarn soon, anyway, so perhaps I won’t go to Hancock Fabrics after all. Their selection is minimal at best. I can swing by Joann’s on the way home one day. Babble babble, welcome to my brain.
Recently, my mom posted some gorgeous pictures on her blog, and invited everyone to find bits of beauty in their own worlds. Chicago was drowning in rain and fog and chill at the time (and it’s still kind of cold here, wtf it is MAY) but this was the most beautiful thing I’d seen in forever:
A stoplight! With accompanying DO NOT WALK/WALK signals! At the corner of my street and the four-lane divided BUSY street that I have to walk across every day! GLEE! I have been hoping for this for two years, and they installed them two months ago, and turned them on a couple of weeks ago, and my commute improved 51478178954%. This is beautiful, trust me.
Erin and I visited the Chicago Botanic Gardens last weekend, and as soon as I can get her to upload the pictures from her camera, I can share them with you. In the meantime, enjoy this one:
My cute-as-pie best pal, waiting for the METRA train to take us to the Gardens. Of course, we were on the wrong side of the track, but we figured it out in time. The Gardens were gorgeous, small enough to do in a few hours, but big enough to be interesting and to have lots of people without seeming crowded. I think next time, I would go earlier in the morning and schedule the tram ride that takes you all around the park to coincide better with the train ride home; we ended up with about two hours to kill before we could leave. But hey, when one person of a pair doesn’t really understand how the Chicago public transportation system works, and the other one has no sense of time, two hours isn’t as bad as it could have been!